Suspenders



March 16 1926. 1,576,770

7 J. c. MABRY SUSPENDERS Filed July 24, 1923 INVENTOR. W/IQSS; I @Q Patented Mar. 16, 1926.

, U ITED STATES -J'OI-I 1\T C. MABRY, OF' KANSAS CITY, MISSQURI.

SUSPENDER-S.

Application filed July 24, 1923. Serial No. 653,504.

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it .known that I, JOHN C. MABRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at KansasCity, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Suspenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in suspenders.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide suspenders arranged and adapted to support; the trousers at three pointsonly located substantially at equal distances apart, whereby the strain is equally divided.

A further object of my invention is to provide novel suspenders adapted to be worn concealed under the shirt, and provided with means by which the suspenders may be easily and quickly attached to the rear middle portion 01? the trousers, the attachment being eflected with the hands disposed at the outside of the shirt.

A further object of my invention is to provide a construction which is simple, cheap to make, durable, not liable to get out of order, which. may be easily and quickly and securely attached to the trousers and shirt underneath the latter, and which is efiicient in operation.

The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed, one of said features being novel means for attaching the suspenders to the trousers.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the preferred embodiment of my invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view or my improved suspenders, shown attached to a pair oit trousers and a shirt, portions only of the shirt and trousers being shown.

Fig. 2 is an enlarger vertical sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. '1.

Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of the trouser attaching devices and a portion of the susponders.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged crossscction on the line 1% of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is an enlarge-d cross section on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in the difi'erent views.

M im )roved sus enders )rovide means adapted to pass over the shoulders and to be supported thereby, and which may comprise two shoulder straps 1, and a rear strap 2, the upper end of which is attached to the straps l, and the lower end ofwhich is provided with means tor releasably engag ing the shirt and trousers at one point only at the rear middle portion of the trousers.

In the attaching'means shown, 3 desig- Y nates a base plate, the upper end of which is attached to the strap, 2 and which has an outwardly laterally extending ear 1, pro-.

vided with a peripheral central notch 5 in which is mounted a. longitudinal pin 6 the upper end or" which is pointed and which is adapted to be inserted through the trousers 7, and shirt 8, Figs. 2 and 1.

The base plate 3, below the ear 4, is prohousing member 12, which is longitudinally I slidable on the base plate 3, and which is provided with two spaced apart housing 70 vi-ded with two reversely turned tongues 10 portions 13 and 1 arranged to receivethe pin 6.

l/Vhen the plate 12 is slid to the uppermost position on the base plate 3, as shown in Fig. 3, the housing portion 14: covers the point of the pin 6. If new the trousers 7 and shirt 8 have some off their material forced between the housing portions 13 and 14, and the base plate 3 is pulled upwardly, while the housing member or plate 12 is held from moving, the pin 6 will be forced through the trouser and shirt material which. is between the housing portions 13 and 14, and the pointed end of the pin will pass into the housing end of the portion 13, thereby securely attaching the suspenders at this point to the trousers and shirt.

The front end of each strap 1 mayhave attached to it atrouser and shirt attaching device corresponding in construction to the one just described.

In the operation of my invention, when used as concealed suspenders, the straps 1 are placed over the shoulders under the shirt. The plate 12 is then moved to the position shown in Fig. 3, after which the rear middle upper poition ot the trousers and the adjacent portion of the shirt is forced-between the housing portions 13 and 14-, after which the base plate 3 is drawn upwardly to the position shown in Fig. 2,

the shirt.

thereby forcing the pin 6 through the material of the shirt and trousers, which is between the housing portions 13 and 14.

This operation may be very easily and quickly performed from the outer side of The same operation would be very difficult, if not wholly impractical to perform with the suspenders under the shirt and at the middle back portion of the trousers with any device arranged to engage a button on the trousers, the difliculty arising from the inaccessibility of the hands to the rear middle portion of the trousers through the opening in the front of the shirt. The applicant has vfound by experimentation that it is impossible or at least impractical to fasten suspenders to the rear middle portion of the trousers with the hands at either the inside or the outside of the shirt by means of a button engaging device, such as is usually employed in attaching concealed suspenders of the ordinary type to the sides of the trousers. With my improved attaching device employing the pin the rear attachment of the suspenders to the trousers may be easily and quickly effected by employing the hands at the outside of the shirt.

The devices at the front end of the straps 1 may be attached to the shirt and trousers at their proper respective positions, in the manner already described, the hands being inserted within the shirt through the front opening in the usual manner.

By having the suspenders attached to the trousers at three points only, at equal distances apart, the strain is equalized and remains so in any position assumed by the \VGHTGI'.

I do not limit my invention to the structure shown and described, as many modifications, *ithin the scope of the appended claim, may be made without departing from the spirit of my invent-ion.

What I claim is:

In suspenders, a trouser attaching device comprising a base plate having a laterally extending ear provided with an edge notch, and having two reversely turned tongues, andi a pin clamped under said tongues, and disposed in said notch, and a housing member longitudinally slidable on said base plate over said ear and said pin and adapted to be moved to cover and uncover the point of said pin, the housing member having an opening for receiving the shirt and trouser material with the latter disposed so as to receive therethrough the point of said pin.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN C. MABRY. 

